Photograph - Photograph, Sepia, Mr and Mrs Gurney Goldsmith, The chaplain ship visiting the Barque Elverland, afterwards lost, 1906

Album (Item) - Photograph album, Mr and Mrs Gurney Goldsmith, The Mission to Seamen in Melbourne, 1905-1910

Historical information

The Elverland, a New Zealand barque, was in Victoria in August 1906.
It was wrecked in January 1907 near the Three Kings Islands (Manawatāwhi) on its way to Auckland from Newcastle with a cargo of coal.
Captain Savory and his men were saved.

Physical description

Small monochrome photograph with thin white border depicting a group of 4 men on board a ship

Inscriptions & markings

Written in pencil on verso "12"

References

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